Women's Liberation and youth's emphasis on freedom have combined to produce a new phenomenon in the U.S.: female hitchhiking. It is a romantic notion dating back to Claudette Colbert's in It Happened One Night. In at least one part of the country, however, it has not proved a salubrious mix. There have been 73 reported assaults on women hitchhikers in the Washington, D.C., area so far this year. These are probably only a fraction of those that have occurred.
Nearly all the girl hitchhikers are white and under 20. Their attackers, however, are generally not the "dirty old men" of lore, but...
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